Health Care

Connecture Inc., a Waukesha-based provider of sales automation technology for the health insurance industry, today announced it will support the design and development of a statewide health insurance exchange in Minnesota.

Madison-based Dean Health Plan has signed an agreement with Prevea Health and St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay to offer health insurance through a managed care network in northeastern Wisconsin.

William Petasnick, who recently retired as president and chief executive officer of Froedtert Health System in Milwaukee, is joining the board of directors of Erdman Company, a Madison-based national leader in health care consulting, facility planning, development, design and construction.

Brookfield-based MyHealthDirect, the nation's first and only health care scheduling exchange, announced today that its board of directors has appointed Tom Cox to be its chief executive officer.

On an 800-acre spread in Verona,Wis., is the headquarters of one of the largest health care-specific information technology firms...

That collective exhale you just heard came from Wisconsin.

There may be no other industry that is regulated as much as health care. According to Adrian Velasquez, president of Wauwatosa-based Fi-Med Management Inc., declining reimbursement rates and a tough economy have increased audits and investigations of hospital systems across the country.

Ryan Braun, Milwaukee Brewers left fielder and reigning National League MVP, has been named the honorary chair for AIDS Walk Wisconsin 2012.

Completing a succession plan announced more than a year ago, Catherine Jacobson has assumed the role of president and chief executive officer of Froedtert Health.